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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Kai WiegandtPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2019 Weight: 0.508kg ISBN: 9783030293055ISBN 10: 303029305 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 23 January 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Method and Matter of the Revisions: Coetzee’s Posthumanist Poetic3. From De-Humanisation to the Minimal Human:Dusklands4. The Human, the Animal and the Body5. Humanity and Collectivity: Nation, State, and Community6. EpilogueReviewsJ.M. Coetzee is renowned for his postmodern metafictional plots and for the philosophical richness and complexity of his texts that have found readerships around the world, often appealing to scholars and intellectuals in particular. In his study J.M. Coetzee's Revisions of the Human (2019), Kai Wiegandt engages with Coetzee's literary negotiations of the human, illuminating the transhistorical reservoir of Western philosophy ... . Wiegandt's study is marked by a sense of affordance ... . (Caroline Koegler, Anglistik, Vol. 33 (3), 2022) “This is a study that is sure to become an essential reference in Coetzee criticism. Wiegandt sheds new light on worn-out discussions and opens up fresh insights and thought-provoking questions that are bound to inspire future responses to Coetzee’s work. … this book, furthermore, does not only work as a highly valuable and illuminating companion to Coetzee’s fiction but also constitutes a powerful reflection on the value of literature and literary criticism.” (María J. López, Anglia, Vol. 140 (3-4), 2022) “J.M. Coetzee is renowned for his postmodern metafictional plots and for the philosophical richness and complexity of his texts that have found readerships around the world, often appealing to scholars and intellectuals in particular. In his study J.M. Coetzee's Revisions of the Human (2019), Kai Wiegandt engages with Coetzee's literary negotiations of the human, illuminating the transhistorical reservoir of Western philosophy … . Wiegandt's study is marked by a sense of affordance … .” (Caroline Koegler, Anglistik, Vol. 33 (3), 2022) Author InformationKai Wiegandt is Heisenberg Fellow in the English Department of Universität Tübingen, Germany. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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